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She began to play concerts aged 14, and the following year, she played in a jazz club for the first time. When leading her own bands, Dennerlein was often the youngest musician in the group, and she learned to co-operate with more experienced musicians. Her local reputation as the "Organ
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was issued, Dennerlein established her own record label in 1985 and assumed her own management duties, because she felt she did not have enough support from her existing label or from
Hammond, who wanted to promote later digital models rather than the B-3 she used. She received two German Record
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rhythms. The fast tempos and rhythmic figures she uses in her interpretations of well-known standards, and in many of her own compositions, require fast bass pedalboard footwork, though she has used bass players for recordings in order to feature techniques such as
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